Marco Rose is no longer a trainer of RB Leipzig. The club has replaced an identification figure by an old friend. About the end of a romance.
The RB fans were surprised on Sunday. At the Women’s game against Freiburg They were amazed, since Marco Rose had been released as coach of the men’s team after the defeat in Mönchengladbach. And this astonishment – it describes the misery of the Bundesliga club, who had to choose between the hot desired figure of identification and the conditions of business professional football. And as so often in football, romance pulled the shorter.
Marco Rose: face of the city
Rose, born and raised in Leipzig, gave his second division debut at VfB Leipzig in 1997. Father Jürgen played as well as he played with rotation, grandfather Walter became the GDR champion with chemistry in 1951. There is hardly any more Leipzig football. In 2013 Marco Rose moved from his first head coaching station at Heimatklub 1. FC Lok to Salzburg to the RB-Kosmos, from where it later went back to the trade fair city via Gladbach and Dortmund in September 2022.
In 2013 Marco Rose also trained locomotive, who played against RB under Alexander Zorniger at the time.
A story that would hardly have been dared to dream on the Leipzig Cottaweg. And then Rose won the second DFB cup title in a row in his first season. He succeeded in duping FC Bayern in the Supercup final 2023, qualifying twice in a row for the Champions League and showing the team for a total of 934 days and 125 competitive games-as long and often as none of its eleven predecessors since 2009.
Löw debut on Wednesday
But the romance ended on Sunday. The achievements were too weak in an at least mixed season. After the disastrous resignation in the Champions League against strong opponents, the crash also followed in the Bundesliga table. Sixth place, the premier class in danger, and there was no own goal in the last five competitive games in foreign space.
The coach is responsible for the lack of ideas in the attack and the permanent low of several top performers, not the squad that many of many. It is clear that RB lags behind its own Champions League claims and on Wednesday (April 2, from 8:45 p.m. in the audio report and in the live ticker) in the semi-finals of the DFB Cup in Stuttgart should be kept alive for a title. Now without rose.
It is no secret that the enthroned RB supervisory board and Red Bull CEO Oliver Mintzlaff would have preferred to make this decision last autumn. Marcel Schäfer, sports director of the Bundesliga club, defended Rose on Saturday after disappointment against Borussia.
On Sunday he let: “We believed in the constellation with Marco and his team for a very long time and tried to create the trend reversal together until the end.” The turnaround failed to materialize, Rose was asked by the farm as well as his assistants Alexander Zickler and Marco Kurth from Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt.
Looking for the regional touch
RB has been experiencing how difficult it is to get local color to the club for years. So far, no player from the region has made the breakthrough in the Bundesliga team from the expensive and state -of -the -art performance center. The Viggo Gebel from Schkeuditz, raised to the professionals in summer, has 13 minutes in the league, was not in the squad in the last four games.
The only 17-year-old Viggo Gebel from Schkeuditz hopes for the breakthrough at RB Leipzig.
And it does not lack a certain irony that with Tom Krauss-like Rose’s son of a local football dynasty-a different home from Leipzig may hear the Champions League anthem in Mainz sounded instead of in the trade fair city in the coming season. But the situation also includes that RB still has only three points behind the FSV and the premier class.
Zsolt Löw: RB expert with Eastern past
With ZSOLT Löw, a specialist now takes over on the coaching bench who left his mark as a player in the football cost at Energie Cottbus and Hansa Rostock. As a trainer, the Hungarian went through all teams from the RB cosmos in Europe. The 45-year-old came to Leipzig via Liefering and Salzburg, assisted alongside Ralph Hasenhüttl and Ralf Rangnick at RB.
Then he was an assistant to Thomas Tuchel at Paris Saint-Germain, FC Chelsea and FC Bayern. Most recently, he belonged to the team of the global RB soccer leader Jürgen Klopp. Now the former Hungarian selection player is responsible for the first time in his career.
April 2018: Zsolt Löw alongside Ralph Hasenhüttl at the RB away game in Mainz.
Claim: DFB Cup final and Champions League qualification
“Our whole focus is on the maximum of nine remaining games this season. We still have the opportunity to achieve our goals in two competitions. We will do everything we can to achieve the cup final in Berlin and get the maximum out of the rest of the Bundesliga season”Löw was quoted by RB on Sunday afternoon.
The old acquaintance is supposed to replace the identification figure Marco Rose and pull the rudder around by the end of the season. What happens in summer is unclear.
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